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50 African American Audition Monologues
Finding authentic African American material has never been easy for actors But Gus Edwards continues to remedy that situation with this third collection of powerful, original monologues for African American…
A Heart Divided
5 Male, 1 Female
The Confederate flag - historical icon or racist symbol? This thought-provoking and gripping play sheds new light on a controversy that continues to divide the American heart When Kate’s liberal-minded…
A Life
1 Male, 3 Female
A Life is the story of Eunice, a feisty Jamaican woman, who refuses to go gently into her twilight years Eunice is 74 years old and recuperating from a heart attack -…
A Midnight Cry - The Underground Railroad to Freedom
8 Male, 6 Female
This moving musical drama is inspired by the true story of a young slave's journey to freedom through the Underground Railroad Whisperings of a railroad helping slaves across to the free states seem too…
A Woman Called Truth - Full-length
3 Male, 3 Female
“Well, children, where there’s so much racket, there must be something out of kilter.” So begins Sojourner Truth’s historic “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech; words which…
Ain’t Nothing But a Thang
3 Male, 3 Female
The Fazes family, like many others, has been thrown curves by life as long as they can remember Now they must once again step up to the plate. Fourteen-year-old Amber is HIV-positive, and…
Amazing Grace
4 Male, 7 Female
“Amazing Grace is about a little girl who loves acting out stories, those told and read to her by her grandmother as well as ones she reads on her own She also makes up her own stories,…
Beloved Friend
Large Mixed Cast
At the beginning, Kristin, a high school student in Minneapolis, is encouraged to correspond with an African girl of her own age who lives in Rhodesia Kristin’s relatively affluent…
Big White Fog
Large Mixed Cast
A poignant family drama set in Chicago’s South Side in the 1920s against a backdrop of the Great Depression and the inescapable racism of the times Struggling to keep his dreams alive and his family…
Black Comedy - Nine Plays
The humor of African-American life is inextricably tied to the humor on the African-American stage, its character shaped by the contradictions of being Black and Bewildered and Bothered in the New World…
